Réjouissance

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The Réjouissance [ ʀeʒwisɑs ] ( fr. "Amusement", "Cheers") refers to a in the 17th and 18th century music scherzo , cheerful character piece . It is often at the end of a suite , for example in the Suite in A minor TWV 55 for recorder and orchestra from the table music by Georg Philipp Telemann and the orchestral suite No. 4 in D major BWV 1069 by Johann Sebastian Bach . Also in the Royal Fireworks by Handel there is a set of this type.

Johann Gottfried Walther defined the Réjouissance in his Musical Lexicon of 1732 as follows:

"Rejouissance [gall.] Means as much as Laetitia, gaudium [Latin] joy, cheerfulness: and occurs in overtures, since some funny piéces are used to being titled."

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  • Walter Kolneder: Lübbes Bach Lexicon. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1994, ISBN 3-404-61288-4 , p. 241
  • Simone Senk: Schülerduden music: the Glossary from A - Z . 4th edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-411-05394-0 , p. 363

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Walther: Musicalisches Lexicon or Musicalische Bibliothec. Wolffgang Deer, Leipzig 1732, p. 519 ( Online at Wikimedia Commons , PDF, 84 MB).